Stephen Elop Quotes

#1. Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

Roger Scruton

#2. And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. I have to experience the Nokia products. I'm a major contributor to the design and the quality of the devices. I have a lot of feedback to provide the teams on that. But also I have to carry competitive devices. You have to understand the competition.

Stephen Elop

#4. First of all, at any company, the investment in research and development in the products is the lifeblood, so that is a critical element of anyone's future going forward.

Stephen Elop

#5. If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Stephen Elop

#6. This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

Stephen Elop

#7. I know there's been questions about-so how long does that continue-and we've now been very clear about that, that software updates to Symbian devices are expected until at least 2016. So there's a long history still to be paved for Symbian in the future.

Stephen Elop

#8. Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Carl Sagan

#9. Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'

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#10. I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

Adam Sandler

#11. On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation.

Stephen Elop

#12. When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

Paul Shaffer

#13. Well roared, lion.

William Shakespeare

#14. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,

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#15. Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

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#16. The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

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#17. Her nerves tingled with a sudden alarm. The pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her; there was something else there, something darker, something that spoke of control and submission, of loss and darkness.

Cassandra Clare

#18. My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

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#19. Work while you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

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#21. A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

Harold Prince

#22. Is there no' always? It's called blue ballocks. Mayhap you've forgotten what it's like to be in your teens -

Kresley Cole

#23. If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

Basmah Bint Saud

#24. I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

David Maister

#25. In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.

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#26. Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Thomas Carlyle

#27. Apple created Android, or at least created the conditions necessary for Android to come into being

Stephen Elop

#28. Work is underway to select the go-forward smartphone brand.

Stephen Elop